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Topic Date Paper Presenter   Paper Presenter
Introduction 7-Jan Course intro.        
  9-Jan Hamlet and the Holodeck, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4 Watanabe      
  11-Jan Hamlet and the Holodeck, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4 Hewner      
  14-Jan Crawford on Interactive Storytelling, Ch. 2 & 3 Velazquez   Mateas & Sengers: Narrative Intelligence Norman
Narrative 16-Jan Cavazza, Narratology for Interactive Storytelling Aubuchon   Propp, Morphology of Folktales Bousquet
  18-Jan Rimmon-Keenan, Narrative Fiction Gorbsky      
  21-Jan No class - MLK Day        
  23-Jan Chatman, Story and Discourse Tran      
  25-Jan Branigan, Narrative Comprehension & Film Ch. 1&2 Drinkuth      
  28-Jan Madden, 99 Ways to Tell a Story Magerko   The Joe Schmo Show  
Improvisation 30-Jan Improv workshop Magerko      
  1-Feb Improv workshop      
  4-Feb Johnstone, Impro for Storytellers Aubuchon    
  6-Feb Johnson-Laird, How Musicians Improvise Bosquet      
  8-Feb          
  11-Feb Hayes-Roth, Directed Improvisation Hewner   Perlin, Improv

Tran

Generation 13-Feb Weld, Planning Magerko   Meehan, TALE-SPIN n/a
  15-Feb Leibowitz, Creating Characters in a Storytelling UNIVERSE Magerko   Leibowitz, Storytelling as Planning Magerko
  18-Feb Turner, The Creative Process Bousquet    
Architectures 20-Feb Weyhrauch, Guiding Interactive Drama Norman      
  22-Feb Mateas & Stern, Facade Tran   Mateas, Structuring Content in Facade Tran
  25-Feb Sgorous, Dynamic Generation of Interactive Plots Watanabe   Fairclough, Story Games and the OPIATE system Drinkuth
  27-Feb Project proposals in class (5 min. apiece)        
  29-Feb Young, MIMESIS / Zocalo

Hewner

     
  3-Mar Cavazza, Planning Character Behavior Gorbsky      
  5-Mar Crawford on Interactive Storytelling, Ch. 6, 10, & 13

Velazquez

     
  7-Mar Magerko, IDA Magerko   Magerko, ISAT Magerko
  10-Mar Flowers, Gamemasters and Interactive Story Watanabe   Robin's Laws of Good DMing n/a
Interactive Fiction 12-Mar Montfort, AAAI 07 Bousquet      
  14-Mar Riedl, Summary Pub Riedl      
  17-Mar Spring break        
  19-Mar Spring break      
  21-Mar Spring break      
Agents 24-Mar Rizzo.Goal-Based Personalities

Gorbsky

 
  26-Mar Magerko, Believable Characters Magerko

Tran

Isbister, Social.Implications
  28-Mar Loyall, Believable Agents and Language Abuchon

Abuchon

Hill, Virtual Humans in the MRE
Language 31-Mar Grosz, Discourse Hewner    
  2-Apr Hovy, Pragmatics and Natural Language      
  4-Apr        
Presentation 7-Apr Cavazza, Dialogue Generation in Character-based Interactive Storytelling Norman   Johnson, TLT
  9-Apr El-Seif Nasr, Intelligent Lighting Drinkuth    
  11-Apr Elson, Lightweight Virtual Cinematography Bosquet   Casella, MAgentA
Pedagogy 14-Apr Jhala, A Discourse Planning Approach for Cinematic Camera Control for Narratives in Virtual Environments Velazquez    
  16-Apr Ryokai, Literacy Learning Tran Abuchon Thomas, Becoming Scientists
  18-Apr Marsella, Thespian Hewner   The Joe Schmo Show
  21-Apr Final exam review Magerko    
  23-Apr TBA      
  25-Apr Papers due via email      
  ? Final exam